A Communist Party Club's activities over a period of time should include all of these things routinely and cooperatively worked into everyone's schedules in one way or another:
• Developing and implementing fundraising, political and issue campaigns
• Planning and managing press conferences, meetings and other events
• Recruiting, educating and training activists
• Public and on-air speaking and issue advocacy for candidates and causes
• Managing web-sites, blogs, and other online communications media
• Mobilizing call-in, letter-writing, leafleting, tabling and canvassing efforts
• Writing press releases and articles for broadcast and print media
• Fundraising with "friends of the Club"
• Designing and implementing action alerts, and training citizen lobbyists
• Online organizing via blogs, websites, social networks, and other applications
• Advance work for hosting book tours, press conferences, and events
• Managing legislative relations, outreach/coalition building and mobilization
• Consulting with officials and activists on policy, strategy, and tactics
• Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting
• Newsletter, leaflets and online publishing: writing, editing and distribution
• Managing simultaneous projects but not so deeply involved in so many projects it kills the Club. Choose one or two issues to focus on long term, and be prepared to respond in a timely way to immediate issues that come up.
Leaflets can easily be created by using letters to the editor submitted and published by members and friends. These leaflets can be distributed in the name of the Club or simply as: concerned citizens.
Every Club meeting should include:
- Marxist-Leninist Education
- Planning for action
- Fundraising activities
These suggestions come from the Hardwood Creek Trail Club-CPUSA in Minnesota.
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